People Like Us: Misrepresenting the Middle East

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In People Like Us, which became a bestseller in Holland, Joris Luyendijk tells the story of his five years as a correspondent in the Middle East. Extremely young for a correspondent but fluent in Arabic, he spoke with stone throwers and terrorists, taxi drivers and professors, victims and aggressors, and all of their families. He chronicles first-hand experiences of dictatorship, occupation, terror, and war. His stories cast light on a number of major crises, from the Iraq War to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, along with less-reported issues such as underage orphan trash-collectors in Cairo.  Read more... Abstract: Featuring the story of author's five years as a reporter in the Middle East, this title alerts us of the way the media gives us a filtered and manipulated version of reality in the Middle East.  Read more... Content: Hello everybody! -- Journalism for beginners -- No news -- Donor darlings and a Hitler cocktail -- Hamiha haramiha -- All the new that's fit to print -- September 11 and the blank spots in the dictatorship -- A new world -- The law of the scissors -- "They are killing innocent Jews" -- A bloody occupation -- The middleman's dilemma -- Absurd and bizarre -- New puppets, old strings -- "There's money in the flag."